Bad Acts and Guilty Minds

Conundrums of the Criminal Law

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Published
December 2012

With wit and intelligence, Leo Katz seeks to understand the basic rules and concepts underlying the moral, linguistic, and psychological puzzles that plague the criminal law.

"Bad Acts and Guilty Minds . . . revives the mind, it challenges superficial analyses, it reminds us that underlying the vast body of statutory and case law, there is a rationale founded in basic notions of fairness and reason. . . . It will help lawyers to better serve their clients and the society that permits attorneys to hang out their shingles."—Edward N. Costikyan, New York Times Book Review

AcknowledgmentsFor Those Who Need to Look before They Leap1. Necessity, the Mother of Invention2. Bad Acts3. Guilty Minds4. The Root of All Evil5. The Company You Keep6. The Crime That Never Was7. Epilogue: Final ReckoningNotesIndex

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